Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:51:14 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: invalid spawn id (4) Message-ID: <20040302215114.GC11909@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <629E717C12A8694A88FAA6BEF9FFCD4403230E6C@brigadoon.spirentcom.com> <6.0.1.1.0.20040302153052.03cfa770@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:10:00PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Humor and indignation aside, it might be a useful feature to have >"installation profiles" for setup based on intended usage. That way, >instead of having to wade through all the packages (on a too-small >screen, no less [an inside joke]), one could simply select "Cygwin for >telnet", or "Cygwin for shell scripting", or "Cygwin for cron" and the >right set of packages will automagically be selected. Feel free to >implement the support for this in setup and submit a patch -- I'm sure >it will be thoughtfully considered. Actually, IMO, setup's UI needs a complete and total redesign. It's obviously not very intuitive to use. Something like the above would probably be useful but maybe we should just go with a more traditional installer look-and-feel. Anyone up for a 'setup2' project? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/